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I have a HDClone Pro. I have 2 HDDs: 1 hdd with FreeBSD (160 GB) and 1 hdd with 2 WinXP partitions (1st - 50 Gb, 2nd ~ 400 Gb, but only _200 Gb free_).

I need to make a full sector-by-sector copy of FreeBSD's drive. But the problem is that there is data on my second NTFS partition and I need it. So if I make a "Drive -> Partition" cloning, will it destroy my data on my 400 Gb partition?

If you do Drive=>partition, the previous contents of the target partition will be overwritten. So this is no solution.

Instead, I'd use the Disc=>Image option, select the FreeBSD disk as source and the 2nd NTFS partition as target. If the Image option is used, the image will be written as a file and not delete anything.

If you disable SmartImage (in the destination select dialog) and also enable 'Copy free areas' on the next screen, a 160GB large file will be written on the NTFS partition, which contains every sector of the first disk.

You can later copy back this disk image with Image=>disk to another disk.